scope of variables

[Gary Wessle]

Ryan Forsythe <ryan at cs.uoregon.edu> writes:

> Gary Wessle wrote:
> > the example was an in-accuretlly representation of a the problem I am
> > having. my apologies.
> > 
> > a = []
> > def prnt():
> >    print len(a)
> > 
> >>>> prnt
> > <function prnt at 0xb7dc21b4>
> > 
> > I expect to get 0 "the length of list a"
> 
> You want prnt(), not prnt:
> 

I finally was able to duplicate the error with a through away code
as follows, 

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acc = [1,2,3]

def a():
    b = [4, 5, 6]
    acc = acc + b
    print len(acc)

a()

**************** error ****************
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "a.py", line 12, in ?
    a()
  File "a.py", line 9, in a
    acc = acc + b
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'acc' referenced before assignment